transactional
Example Sentences
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And there are two kinds of toxic friendships: one that is transactional and one that is based in trauma.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Motherhood used to be filled with transactional relationships—the neighborhood mom you would carpool with but didn’t necessarily invite over to dinner; the mom of your kid’s friend who kept to herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Yet beneath this narrative of journalistic fortitude lies a far more transactional reality that defines modern Washington media.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
It may seem like a weird career shift for Witkoff, but he’s such an outlier that the famously transactional Donald Trump treats him like an actual friend.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The approach then of the second phase of this method and of the transactional phase of nursing when nurses are in the arena with others is the same.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
